Mobilog

Tuesday, May 7, 2002

Wholesale Retailer Melds Wireless LANs With VOIP

BJ's Wholesale Club has integrated VOIP phones into a companywide wireless LAN installation that also supports wireless scales and bar code scanners.
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Cable will rule broadband, report says. Cable will triumph over satellite and DSL Internet access for the next five years, according to The Yankee Group. Regulatory hurdles will stand in the latter's way. [CNET News.com]
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EDS bans IM. Viral risk avoidance [The Register]
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Generic Wi-Fi card drivers for Mac OS 8 and 9: these drivers should unleash the full cheapness of Wi-Fi PC Cards on Mac owners with pre-AirPort equipped laptops, or those that want to bypass the $100 modified Orinoco card. The company lists compatible and probably compatible cards. The driver is $14.95 during beta, $19.95 on release. Some of the cards they list should be available for less than $50 on eBay or possibly even in new condition at a clearance site. [via Raines Cohen on the BAWUG Wireless list]

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Microsoft Expands in Europe With Navision Deal. Microsoft said today that it was buying Navision, Europe's fifth-largest software company, in a deal worth about $1.3 billion. By Paul Abrahams, Ft.com. [New York Times: Technology]
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Companies ready wearable ID system. Microvision and Robotic Vision Systems team up to market a biometric identification device to the U.S. government and commercial businesses. [CNET News.com]
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Medical Students Sue Over Residency System. If a class-action lawsuit to be filed on Tuesday is successful, the nation's health care system will be forced to drastically change the way doctors are trained. By Adam Liptak. [New York Times: Business]
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Condo Sales Show Rise in Quarter. WASHINGTON, May 6 (Bloomberg News) -- Sales of United States condominiums and cooperatively owned apartments rose 17 percent to a record in the first quarter, as low mortgage rates and mild weather spurred purchases, the National Association of Realtors said today. By Bloomberg News. [New York Times: Business]
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Trump Tries to Sell Happiness, in Junk Bonds. Six months after threatening to default on junk bonds issued by his three Atlantic City casinos, Donald Trump is back, marketing a new deal to investors. By Riva D. Atlas. [New York Times: Business]
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Acer Supports A, B, and G Sir. Acer, Atheros, and Wistron NeWeb demo multi-mode WLAN laptop with network aware apps to simplify roaming and security. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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TDK Beefs Up Bluetooth Product Line. New phone, Palm, and iPAQ tools that help you say good-bye to cables! [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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McDonald's serves WLAN broadband in Japan. Do you want fries with that? [The Register]
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A Natural History of the @ Sign: "Although the change from at meaning 'for a given amount per' to at meaning "in a specified (electronic) location" comes fairly naturally to English speakers, it does not for native speakers of other languages, for whom neither 'at' nor @ meant anything until e-mail came around." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]
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Mars Direct Approach. There is no better time than now to go to Mars. We are far more prepared to send humans to Mars today, than we were to go to the moon at the beginning of the space age. NASA is an organization born out of competition. Science and discovery were the byproducts of weapons research and political posturing. Space exploration ushered in a new era in human history marked by success... success in the form of the Apollo program, the Viking missions, the shuttle, and new approach to Mars in the 90's. [kuro5hin.org]
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Representing objects and properties in Physics. A student first learning physics usually faces two inter-related tasks that are difficult to unwind and see as separate fundamentals. Older students and practitioners rarely go back and address the assumptions they made at the very start, so the intuitive leaps they made rarely surface for examination. Besides the early concepts of kinematics and Newton's forces, a student must also learn how to represent things of interest in the mathematical language they are expected to use. It is the issue of object representation that will be addressed by this paper. The objects to be represented are the typical concepts of physics. The reader is assumed to be knowledgeable about enough of them to follow the argument. [kuro5hin.org]
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Steganography With Lists. Is David Letterman broadcasting a secret message each night with his Top 10 list? What is VH-1 doing when it broadcasts the top 100 videos of all time? Perhaps they're sending secret messages. Any list can be rearranged to carry a hidden message. I wanted to ask the Kuro5hin participants for some help finding the best lists. [kuro5hin.org]
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Jobs Gives Developers a Thrill. Apple coders catch a quick glimpse of 'Jaguar' -- the next version of OS X -- as Steve Jobs rings a few bells and sounds a few whistles. Farhad Manjoo reports from the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Jose, California. [Wired News]
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eBay-Accenture deal aimed at big guns. In an attempt by the online auction giant to raise revenue, it is teaming with the consulting firm, eBay and Accenture are set to announce. [CNET News.com]
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